Brief Profile

Dr. Narendra Kumar Gupta, Director PM&E, SKN Agriculture University, Jobner completed his M.Sc. (Ag.) from Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner and Ph.D. from prestigious IARI, New Delhi. He has been the recipient of University Gold Medal for outstanding academic performance in M.Sc. (Ag) Plant Physiology. He started his professional career as Assistant Professor (Plant Physiology) at SKN College of Agriculture, Jobner, Rajasthan in 1996 and rose to the level of Professor in 2011.

Dr. Gupta is mainly working on plant carbon assimilation, metabolism and utilization at molecular level as well physiological screening of crops for abiotic stress tolerance at field level. He has made significant contribution in generating external funding through adhoc projects from ICAR, RKVY, ISM& H and other agencies. He received first ICAR-CAFT on Plant Biotechnology to the University and thus contributing in capacity building in the field of plant biotechnology through organizing trainings and delivering lectures to train the young scientists.

Dr. Gupta has earlier been bestowed with DBT overseas Assocciateship -2005 to work at University of Adelaide, Australia and ICAR-NAIP traing fellowship to work at UNL, Lincoln, USA in 2013. He has offered to serve as Visiting Professor at University of Mauritius in 2015. He has received J.J. Chinoy Gold Medal Award 2019 for his outstanding contribution in Plant Physiology. In 2020, he received Dr. R. S. Paroda Best Scientist Award for his outstanding contribution in agriculture among all the State Agricultural Universities of Rajasthan.